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Now appearing in the workspace: The Svengoolie bobblehead.

It seems like only yesterday... I'm just kidding. No. It doesn't. It seems like we've always had Svengoolie on our TV screen...

This week's Chicago Reader features a nice cover article on Rich Koz--better known to millions of horror-movie viewers ghost-to-gh...e...

While it's good to have a book devoted to Chicago's first official horror host, Mad Marvin (a.k.a. Terry Bennett), much of this terr...

Back in the days before the home video revolution, cable, satellite dishes and the Internet, if you wanted to see a movie, there were only ...

When I got home after what had been a pretty awful day, I needed something to lift my spirits. And, as luck would have it, something spiri...

Everyone who knows me knows how much I enjoy horror films, especially the classics from the '30s and '40s (and the not-so-classics ...

First, there was the sound--a long, groaning, creaking sound that could only issue forth from a centuries-old coffin lid. Then came the mu...

The postcard Son of Svengoolie (now just "plain" Svengoolie) sent me back in 1980.

For Halloween 1981, Sven showed a double feature of The Mummy and House of Horrors . This year? Bram Stoker's Dracula .

I was fortunate enough to grow up in Chicago, where I had many local TV viewing options when I was young and impressionable. Not only coul...

Last Movie I saw: Whip It. Why did this movie fail at the box office? Was it resistance to the concept of Drew Barrymore as a director? (Sh...

A typical Saturday night in La Casa del Terror.

This past Halloween, one of our local Public Television stations, WTTW, was to run an interview with Rich Koz, better known to local TV view...

Yesterday at work, I put in overtime (for the second day in a row) and developed a massive headache toeing the border of a migraine (also fo...

June 16 is, as it happens, a a sad personal anniversary: 14 years ago on this date, my dad passed away while recovering from triple bypass...